HIGH-IMPACT STEM LEARNING AT TEXAS STATE

This is Texas State

200+ Degree Programs

98 Bachelor’s 91 Master’s 14 Doctoral

• Two campuses

• 38,000 + students

• TXST named one of the nation’s Best Colleges for 2022 by Princeton Review

• 95% of our students are from Texas

• 44% of undergraduates are first-generation college students

• $110 M+ in research expenditures in 2022

• Hispanic-serving institution with a majority-minority (56%) student population

• #1 university in Texas for helping at-risk students graduate

• #13 in the U.S. for bachelor’s degrees awarded to Hispanic students

• #24 in the list of national four-year public institutions enrolling and graduating women in computer science and engineering

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education is a method of hands-on teaching and learning where students learn to apply academic content by creatively solving real-world problems with innovative design-based thinking to prepare students for future career opportunities.

Texas State University is at the forefront of advancing STEM-related research, education, and academic resources for students and society. For example, we are partnering with NASA to develop STEM educators; we are developing a new STEM Building in the emerging Science and Engineering Neighborhood that came about in large part due to preexisting trends at Texas State; and Texas State is conducting highimpact research and learning focused on solving real-world problems.

Texas State is inviting supporters of STEM education to invest in our capacity to educate the next generation of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians. With over 100 scholarships, faculty, and research endowments for STEM and over 60 non-endowed gift funds and STEM research grants already committed in funding, Texas State is seeking to raise funds for more STEM scholarships and an additional $137.4 million needed for the new STEM building through philanthropic funds.

Generación STEM at Texas State

• Generación STEM uses a proactive, wrap-around approach to enhance undergraduate STEM student success through multiple initiatives.

• Success coaching and advising will provide individualized student support for incoming freshmen and transfer STEM students.

• Generación STEM will support students through the transfer navigation process by enhancement of existing and initiation of new transfer articulation agreements with 2-year Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs).

• Generación STEM aims to enhance STEM-based career attainment through the development of workbased learning experiences and professional development programming for students that includes in-demand business skill-building and curricular alignment.

• One of the main aims of the Generación STEM program is to offer professional development to STEM faculty in culturally responsive teaching methods with an overall goal of improving student engagement and learning outcomes in STEM courses.

• The Generación STEM Workforce Advisory Council is comprised of Texas State faculty and Texas State alumni professionals working in STEM fields. Council members share their expertise and recommendations to help our project expand work-based learning opportunities and develop skills-training workshops for Texas State STEM majors to ensure that our students are well prepared for employment in high-demand STEM occupations.